The outgoing Italian Government has posted the tax returns of every citizen online. It took the website 24 hours to crash, because everyone in Italy wanted to know how much their neighbors were paying in taxes.
The Italian IRS probably got the idea from that dude who posted his Social Security Number in several advertisements for his SSN security monitoring service. Unfortunately, they did not realize that the purpose of that advertisement was to promote security, not busybody-ness.
Next Week: Somalia posts how many grains of rice each citizen has eaten in the past couple of years (preview: its in the single digits!!!)
Update: The guy from the SSN security service had his identity stolen!!
BBC: Italy Posts Income Details on Web
Wonkette: Bitchy Outgoing Italian Government Posts Everyone's Tax Info Online
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